• T HOUGH the news from the Western front, from the Italian front, from Salonika, and from Russia is all good, and in some cases very good indeed, it would be idle to pretend...

though the Rumanians have had to retreat, it is quite clear that their Army has been able to do so without any loss of moral. Otherwise we should hear of great losses of...

Allies is ostensibly based on the fact that the Greek Army is not equipped for the field, and on his fear that the Greeks of Asia Minor would be massacred by the Turks,...

through no fault of the Rumanians, somewhat disappointing, another of our Latin Allies, the Italians, have been able to give this week the best possible account of themselves....

been nothing so sensational as the Italian triumph, the latest news is very good. The French were able to announce on Wednesday that on the day before they had made a most...

distinctly good. The Serbians and French on the left—that is, in and around Monastir —Jaye been making good progress and taking prisoners, while on the right the British by...

confused transactions which inevitably come with revolutions such as those which are taking place in Greece. Before doing so, how- ever, we must state that the French Admiral in...

mastery of their assailants in the Dobrudja. Here they are holding their own, and more than holding their own. The next point to be insisted upon is that the forces of the...

witrh M. Drakopoulis, the leader of the Greek Labour Party. Id. Drakopoulis, who took his degree at Oxford, and is in complete sympathy with the Allies, was bold enough to tell...

case.

must have been bad faith on the part of some individual. Whom does Mr. Redmond accuse ? We should like to think Mr. Redmond was acting like a gentleman and a man of honour, but...

pulsion in Ireland at Waterford on Friday, October 6th. With an imperturbability which takes away the breath of an Englishman, but which to an Irish Nationalist is apparently...

the United States was "as ready to fight as any nation in the world" (we take the words from the Times), but that the cause "must be jtist and important." The United States had...

the Provisional Coven:tient. He left Crete at the end of last week. Evidently he had information of a German plan for inter- cepting his ship, as at the last moment he changed...

at threats mixed with cajolery, after declaring that the Irish Party would defeat conscription, said that the way to get recruits was to soothe the inflamed feelings of the...

end to a long agony, and yet as a matter of fact we venture to say that the majority of the people of Ireland are at heart deeply relieved by the conclusion. They have had the...

attempted to enforce conscription it would be resisted in every village in Ireland. "Its attempted enforcement would be a scandal which would ring round the whole civilized...

" When you are asked arc you not willing to fight, reply 'Yes,' but that you aro waiting for something worth fighting for. You are looking for that sort of quarrel within the...

made the extremely important announcement that the Government had decided to take over the whole control of the wheat supply. They will work through a Royal Commission, which...

(4,321 tons), the 'West Point' (3,847 tons), and the Stephan() (3,449 tens). The Dutch ship was the Bloomersdijk ' (4,850 tons), and the Norwegian was the 'Christian Knudsen'...

and the most pessimistic of the Prime Minister's critics should surely find it impossible to regard as unsatisfactory or as hedging. Mr. Asquith's survey of the war was a...

of the figures quoted by him. Up till now, and including the Vote of Wednesday night, Parliament has voted something like £3,132,000,000. The daily average cost of the war is...

von Arnim says that the Staffs of the Higher Command "proved inadequate in actual fighting." There is need of more machine guns, and the General considers the heavy German...

the debate, but we must draw attention to Sir Edward Carson's touching allusion to Mr. Asquith's loss of his son. He spoke of "the deep sympathy and affection which we felt...

by General Sixt von Arnim, commanding the Fourth German Corps, on the Somme fighting during July. This document, which was captured during one of our advances, is the most...

similar request inould be made to the Germans. But what if they refuse where we complied ? In truth, every circumstance seems to contribute embarrassment and difficulty for the...

a supplementary Vote of Credit for three hundred millions for war purposes in a speech which is universally admitted to have been one of the most impressive and eloquent that...

eloquent and moving that we must quote it in full :— " The strain which the war imposes on ourselves and our Allies, the hardsliips which we freely admit it involves to some of...

has arisen owing to the sudden outbreak of submarine activity off the coast of the United States. Here we must briefly chronicle the fact that on Saturday last the German...

July 13th*

WHAT GERMANY IS REALLY AFTER. T HE United States Government find themselves in a position of great and increasing difficulty owing to the sudden outbreak of German submarine...

W E need not apologize for returning to the subject of Mr. Winston Churchill's theory of naval strategy, for the spirit in which the Navy conducts its great business is the very...

also in a sense more pathetic, than the way in which the world forgets its past and all the lessons of history when its emotions are moved, and when there is something which it...

granted a further Vote on Account of /300,000,000 towards meeting the expenses of the war. The sum is enormous, but the country has grown accustomed to thinking in hundreds of...

T AM no classical scholar. By this I mean that the attempt made by my masters at school and at Oxford and by my many private tutors to impregnate my mind with the Greek grammar...

I N the summer of 1900 the first experiments with a Zeppelin airship over Lake Constance—at least, the first experiments which attracted serious attention in England—took place,...

A BATTLEFIELD FOR SALE. [TO THE Eorrog Ow Tun " SPECTATOM'l 8129,—IG the Paris edition of the New York Herald for September 26th, 1916, appeared the following advertisement,...

IRELAND AND IMPERIAL SERVICE. ere 1101 EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Si:Ea—When the Liberal Party was split over Home Rule long ago, there was no point more urgently pressed by...

into Scotch and English reg iments and vice - vend. I think many run away from Ireland and enlist on the other side because they are afraid of being stopped by their parents or...

OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sru,—A propos of your suggestion of September 2nd--criticized, I see, by a correspondent the following week—that triumphal arches should be placed at the...

ITO TER EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Strt,—I am afraid there is still some misunderstanding in Dr. Rashdall's mind. Let me therefore say clearly that the actual proposal of the...

read the very interesting suggestion in your issue of September 2nd outlining a scheme for making the new Charing Cross Bridge into a memorial of the war. You propose erecting a...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR. Sin,—The chief, perhaps the only, objection to be urged against the attractive plans for a noble via sacra that have been put forward in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.' Sm,—The dug-out where this is written is littered with official corre- spondence from A.O.D., regimental paymasters, and other Departments at...

(To THE Roma or TEA " erzersvoa."1 Ste,—There is an uneasy feeling throughout the country that the ques- tion of the suffrage and registration is coming forward in the near...

(To TUB EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—I ask permission, through your columns, to inform Old Etonian' that the scope and form of a memorial to their schoolfellows who have...

Sre,—May I add one to those already published in your columns ? It may be remembered by some who wore und3rgraiuite3 of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the early "nineties." The...

Sra,—The correspondence in the Spectator has reminded me vaguely of some " Limericks " relating to Exeter College (my own College) and to Jesus College (in which I have a...

TEE " Srseraroa."1 Sia,—Your readers may be interested in the work of the bracken- cutters in the New Forest. They are women, living in camp, under mili- tary rule, and are...

IrrO THE EDITOR 01 TES '• srseverea.1 Sm,—One more Limerick, if you will have it, picked up in a Swiss hotel-book :— "A Cockney, when up at Zormatt, Dropped an H down the...

dated September 16th you quote "The Old Man of St. Bees" (it should be Tralec) as having been composed by the late W. S. Gilbert. Several years ago I wrote to the author and...

TEl •• sesersres.1 Sra,—In view of the letter in last Saturday's Spectator by Dr. J. Holland Rose on the need of Y.M.C.A. helpers, will you state in the Spectator that a motor...

To TRH EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTITOR., 8m,—When I commanded a Volunteer battalion, in order to get over the "fourteen days " difficulty I required every recruit to sign a personal...

[To ren EDITOR OF THE " fiesersrea,"1 Sus-s-In the notice of Nurse Lovechil 4' 8. Eega,cy in your issue of Ootob011 7th you speak of "Jack and Jill" leaving "poor Jill Wog there...

[To THII EDITOR OF TR& SPECTATOR.") SIR, —May I appeal to your readers on behalf of the many patients in this hospital who are invalided out of the Service ? Most of them have...

ere TRH EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] Sist,—May I beg for a few lima in which to thank you and your generous readerslor their response to my letter of appeal on behalf of the...

TUE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Church Army have been requested by the responsible authorities to provide eighty more recreation huts and clubs for the troops close behind the...

(To THE EDITOB OF THE " SPECTATOR.") 819.,—I trust you will find space for a brief tribute to the memory of Brigadier-General Howell, whose death in action on the Western Front...

[To THE EDITOR OF TES " srEerAToR.") Sre,—May we in the Committee's name plead for a short space in your next issue to sound a necessitous note in behalf of the Arethusa and '...

[To THE EDITOR OP TDB " SPECTATOR.") SIR.—Call you make room for mo to prefer the following request ? I venture to ask ladies to writo for the printed pattern of a sweater and...

THE article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the scattering of pieces of paper and other picnic debris, which appeared in our issue...

ULSTER ON THE SOMME. (In Memoriam E. G. B., Killed in Action, July 1st, 1918.) r" The Men of Ulster," published in the Spectator on September 26th. 1914, ended with the lines...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Commun. voted," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mole of...

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THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION AT THE ACADEMY. TAB ordinary Academy public are likely to be considerably astonished if they visit Burlington House in the coming week. Not only...

THE MANAGEMENT OF WAR.* Are work on the literature and history of the sixteenth century emanating from the pen of Mr. Ernest Law deserves, and is certain to command, the...

Roosevelt's latest book we felt that Charles Kingsley would probably have been lost in admiration of the author. Mr. Roosevelt has the virtues Kingsley placed above all...

Is has been mid, more in sorrow than in an g er, that there is no room in Ireland for a moderato man, but to some extent "A. E." may be re g arded as a welcome exception to the...

Trizaz was a tinie, not very distant, when our Hindu and Muidins fellow-subjects were not on the friendliest terms. When, for instance, W. M. Thackeray's g raildffither and...

LADY CONNTIE.* LADY CONSTANCH BLEpLow was the only child of a peer of scholarly and antiquarian tastes who had married comparatively late in life and settled in Rome. On the...

THIS is a collection of papers, all marked by Dr. Holland's quality, but not all of equal interest and value. In all there is the accustomed torrent of fine rhetoric ; and in...

and Oa 1.05. 14•44 guessing.—A Love Tangle. By F. E. Penny. (Chatto and Windus. 5s. net.)—An Anglo-Inctan story, with valuable sidelights on the feelings of educated...

L (Gresham Publishing Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This Life of Lord Kitchener, to be completed in three volumes which are not sold separately, is care- fully written and contains a good...

Right Rev. G. F. Browne, D.D. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)— Long before Dr. Browne became a Bishop, he was Professor of Art and Archaeology at Cambridge, and in...

Watson. (Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—This useful little book is a descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Sedgviick Museum at Cambridge. All the specimens, which...

(Notice is Vas column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Cloud and Silver. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen and Co. 5s. net.)— The majority of these charming essays have...

by Q.M. Sergeant-Instructor E. Handley-Read. (Pulman and Sons. 'Is. 6d. each.)—These are sombre delineations of shell-torn Flanders drawn with great skill, and in the case of...

Donie. (Cambridge University Press. 6e. net.)—This is the second volume of a series of "Provincial Geographies of India," which ought to be widely read. The author, who was...

12s. 6d. net.)—A third volume of Mr. Tizetelly's reminiscences. Very nearly half the book is devoted to visits to Germany in the years immediately following the Franco-German...

By L Graham H. Horton-Smith. (Perthshire Courier. 6d. and 3d. net.)—In the first of these vigorous pamphlets Mr. Horton-Smith recalls the genesis of the ill-fated Declaration...

made bread. Exactly how to make it—not only plain brown and white, but in fancy varieties, Vienna and milk bread, dinner, breakfast and milk rolls—can be learnt from Miss May...

Windus. 3s. 6d. net.)—M. Emile Verhaeren has written a prefatory letter to the author of this book. In it he says that the artist working in London from sketches made in happier...

3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hawkes is well blown in America as the blind naturalist and poet. In this autobiography he tells us how, at the age of thirteen, he was accidentally shot and...